Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-06-01

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.so-ght in the psst hss been extensive,
bn, ,be great questions that have taxed
ne ;nteiIect of older nations and which we
ave thought we're impossible Wild our
Government are now rsppirg 81 the ooo'r
~ Congress for I'D Omission and solution.
a. Ionessa vast and unOccupied ter
,;,oyv eonld be pointed TO as refuge. the
p~assions and prejudices when poured IN
mon us from every nation eould EXPAND
xithout collision, but tie power OF e1-
mansion has almost reached its limit ano
The great problem Of bringing these POSI-
tive and negative poles Of society into con-
tact. and nutralizipg their opposing cur
rents is at hand.
The population Of this country Is fast
spproacbipg the density Of European ma
,ions. and we will soon be forced to snow
the world whether there il any superior
mover in q Republican Government, and
vhy We claim its institutions better edspt-
ed TO the promotion OF human happi-
ness.
In the past we have ridieulsd the fierce
strupgles of other nations against the
res.lessness OF the people and assured
ourselves that they were tie legitimate
is.ues of The Government, feeling our
selves secure because, from geographical
reasons, they bad never occurred In ours.
But now these landmarks Of poulsr con-
demraticn Of government are traced Oh
our own walls, and where il the Daniel
with his wisdom TO interpret them
The socialistic element, the array OF
labor against capital, tho hideous strength
of secret associations, tie misery and hate
OF unrelieved poverty, all the elements
that ever ~conspired against the strength OF
any nation, have risen into active power
in the United States during the last five
years.
What shall be the remedy? II the Gov
erumen. that WI have fondly believed for
a century would never give them birth.
has furnished a home for these very forces,
il what we believe was the residence OF hu-
man am bition and progress mas fallen like
other great tabernacles of thought, there
: is need in the future for the keenest fore
sight and soundest craftsmanship that the
|, whole theory OF self government may not
. be discarded. To avert these threatening
, dangers, your Congressman. Senators and
: public men must be men of the broadesi
culture and education. For this work
!, must be the conservation of the whole
: man to the noblest purpose to which one
! can address himself, the prosperity and
happiness OF dis leIl0W men.
/ The coming statesman must swear
himself first upon the atlas of liberty,
and looking ahead to the great political
a wants, devoted himself 10 broader laws
, more equalizing in their results, that this
country may continue in its second cen
tury, az in the first, an instrument ad.
. mirably contrived for the promotion oil
. human happiness. The remedy for the
. ar;,.s ~ In-;4
. innate results of our doctrines, which start.
! ing from g correct hypothesis, have of late
q worked injustice and misery, will be
: found. not in limiting the principles Of
, liberty so far as they relate to citizenship,
, but wise provisions which shall protect
. the output Of capital through labor
equally with the moneyed capital. Thai
! the accumulation of property is to be en-.
couraged by every means consistent with
{ right, no one will deny; but when
l amassed, its power should be cautiously
! guarded by wise restrictions. For any
+ virtue, carried to extreme will work as q
vice.
And upon this point may yet arise the
greatest questions of law; and the whole
: doctrines Of cooperative monopoly be
~abrogated. To the power of this soulless CO,
: operative body which has 80 often of late
= rejected the American laborer apd
! searched through the degraded millions o.
! Asia to find the cheap instruments Of trade
with which to displace home energy
may be ascribed much of the difficulty o.
the laboring classes.
Under the sanction of our Constitution
they prosecute their unholy cause in thu
: name of liberty and equal rights. But
such are not the rights our ancestors con
templated. They debsse the true issues o.
! our independence, and aim at its stability
! The great parties of this country, for th,
past twenty-five years, have directed theil
legislation to the production of wealth
n have set a prize upon the power O.
monopoly. But we are told by the DO
litical leaders. who play the game of in
trigue, fraud, and falsehood, that all law
have been enacted for the benefit of labor
But the time has come when facts and re
' suits must prevail. The tongue of facts i,
ever the alert enemy of logic.
In the progress of man in the United
States, popular needs have outmarohet
! the principles of old parties that wert
! born OF issues long since passed into OBJ
livion. The young men Of the present
l generation have something more to de-
than to exhaust their strength in striving
to reanimate the political corpses OF the
United States. We can be no longer de-
ceived by the sophistries of reason. The
} needs OF the day have become imperative,
and the labor reform question may vel
strike hard at the broadest truths Of The
Constitution. Let us hope that the an.
swer may be found in a just acknowledge.
ment. Of the rights Of toll, in proper
restraints upon the ~monopolies Of cor.
porations, and. If necessary, in shutting
the doors of their country to the children
OF parasitic nations.
We occupy the vertex Of a great trian.
gular pyramid OF population and graded
civilization. With 316, 900, 600 OF strug.
Cling humanity pressing upon our lateral
face to the east; while upon our lateral
face to the west, 400, 900, 900 of debased
Mongolians are swearing their minions
upon their affairs. binding them heart and
conscience to their own cherished TYRANNY.
and then sending them here to feast upon
the vital forces Of the nation.
These two forces we must grspple. civ.
ing to the throngs from the cast, who az.
simulate in law and patriotism, the fullest
equality; but hurting back the leperous
parasiter, who. like rank contagion, un.